From the Austin American-Statesman American-Statesman Publisher Patrick Dorsey has announced two leadership changes for the Statesman newsroom. John Bridges, a 30-year veteran of the Statesman newsroom and former staffer of The Daily Texan at the University of Texas, was promoted from managing editor to executive editor, and Bill Church, the senior vice president for news for Statesman owner GateHouse Media, added Statesman editor-in-chief to his corporate responsibilities. “Together, with Bill and John, we will build on our impressive legacy of doing journalism with impact,” Dorsey said in a staff announcement. “I look forward to all the amazing things we can […]
Read more →University of Texas Journalism school legend Griff Singer and his wife Evelyn have been honored with dedication of the journalism foyer in the Belo Center for New Media in recognition of their achievements. Singer was a long-time professor in the journalism school, and also had a distinguished career at the Dallas Morning News and other papers. His wife Evelyn was a long distance runner and former teacher; she died in 2018 after a 14-year battle with cancer. The dedication of the foyer was made recently, and Singer remarked to those attending that he was “really lucky” to have known his UT family for […]
Read more →Editor’s note: How to access The Texan archives is included at the bottom of this story, plus a link to donate to the Friends of The Daily Texan group, which has pledged to pay costs needed to make the Texan history available to all. Students, faculty and staff have free access; the public can subscribe. The Friends group guaranteed the money so this project could proceed; now we will start soliciting donations for that effort. Thanks in advance for your support. By Natalie England / Marketing Communications Moody College of Communication For those daring enough to brave the dim staircase, […]
Read more →William C. Powers Jr., 28th president of the The University of Texas at Austin, and an esteemed teacher, nationally recognized legal scholar and staunch believer in the value of the public research university who defended UT against challenges to its mission, died Sunday. Powers passed away in Austin from complications from a fall several months earlier and from oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, a rare adult-onset muscle disorder. In addition to his other achievements, Powers also came to the financial aid of The Daily Texan, student newspaper at UT, during a particularly critical moment in its history. “Powers’ aid to The Texan […]
Read more →An Austin couple who met 59 years ago as staffers on The Daily Texan, student newspaper at The University of Texas at Austin, has established an annual cash award for present day staffers. With their gift to The University, the couple established the Jerry and Becky Conn Daily Texan Scholarship Fund to be awarded annually in perpetuity. The generous gift will generate a $1,500 cash award for a deserving Texan staffer. The award will be announced each fall at the Friends of the Texan annual event. The Friends of the Texan is a non-profit group of former staffers that supports […]
Read more →The board of directors of Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. has established a set of fund-raising goals for 2019 to benefit The Daily Texan, and is encouraging donations as 2018 comes to a close. Donations are now being accepted for each of the four goals, plus any other directed needs identified by a donor and the Friends group. The four area of needs, voted on and approved at the Friends annual on-site meeting in Austin Oct 26 include: — increasing the Texan staffer scholarship endowment set up by the Friends, allowing larger and additional annual grants; the Friends gave one […]
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The Daily Texan staff has added more than 100 students since the fall of 2015, when Texas Student Media began conducting censuses of the staff. The Daily Texan had 193 staff members in the fall of 2015, which grew to 243 staff members in the fall of 2016 and 301 staff members this past fall. Texas Student Media Director Gerald Johnson attributes the growth to a number of reasons, but he points to an increased focus on fostering a welcoming environment and diversifying content and participant backgrounds. Johnson also sees the increase as a likely response to recent attacks on […]
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Friends of The Daily Texan Inc. has provided $25,000 in funds to start a scholarship fund for Daily Texan staffers and is now beginning a campaign to raise additional funds to further grow the endowment. During its annual awards dinner Nov. 3, the Friends group announced a $25,000 grant to Moody College of Communication to establish an annual $1,500 scholarship for a deserving student journalist who works on The Texan. The first scholarship grant will be awarded in spring 2018 to a deserving staffer, chosen by a selection committee that will include representatives from Moody College of Communication, The Daily Texan, Texas […]
Read more →Daily Texan Editor-in-Chief Laura Hallas and Managing Editor Michelle Zhang have joined the board of Friends of The Daily Texan Inc. Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. is a non-profit organization established to lend support and assistance to The Daily Texan, an institution at the University of Texas at Austin since 1900. Members include alumni of The Texan, plus other supporters of a free and unfettered student media at UT. The board consists of media professionals and other supporters of The Texan. It also includes the sitting Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor, whi have full voting rights and responsibilities on […]
Read more →Editor’s note – Below you’ll find an update from Media Advisor Peter Chen, who works daily with the journalists at The Daily Texan. His note describes the real-world experiences Texan journalists are receiving, and how they rise to the occasion. By Peter Chen Media Advisor, Texas Student Media I’d like to update Friends of The Daily Texan on what your successors recently did that I feel y’all would be proud of. How they worked tirelessly to nail down a story of a Student Government (SG) elections code violation, the pushback they encountered that is so similar to what journalists are […]
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